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Lette/rs Patent N Q 106,827, dated August 3i), 1 870.

/ IMPROVED BARREL.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

i,"To all 'whom it may conce-rn Beit known that I, GEORGE M. HUNTLY, ofthe city'ot Grand Rapids, county of Kent'and State of Michigan, haveinvented a new and improved Mode of Manufacturing Barrels for thePacking of Dry Material; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is atrue, full, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing and to letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my in vpcntionconsists in making har- 'y rels, and halfaudqnarter barrels, and kegs and casks,

for the purpose of packing dry material, with the ordinary bulge andchime of three wooden bands or sections, more or less, the middle ofwhich bands or sections is larger than the end bands or sections, andall which sect-ions are banded and hooped, as hereinafter described,with four hoops around the circumference of said barrel, and threestrips of strap' or hoop-iron outside oi' said bands or sections,ruiming lengthwise of said barrel, and .eqnidistant from each other,-forthepurpose of keeping said bands or sections together, and also for the-purpose of confining and fastening the heads of said barrel in theirproper places.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I proceed to describe itsconstruction, and refer to the drawing. Figure 1 is avien of a completebarrel, showing one of the' three longitudinal iron strips, f, on theoutside, but passing under the iron hoops as designed to be used.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal half section of the barrel; showing themanner of construction andinsertion.

Figure 3 is an enlarged section of one sideA of said barrel.

K represents the three wooden bands or sections, the middle of whichsections is enoughlarger than the end sections to admit the end sectionswithin it two inches, more or less, and at the point there is a hoopfastened to the inside of the middle section, as a s top to the endsections.

On the outside of the barrel, at equidistant points,

are three pieces of band or hoop-iron, passing under' the hoop, andlengthwise 0f the barrel, and three or four inches longer than thebarrel itself, as shown in iig. 1, which are used for the purpose ofholding the barrel together longitudinally.

Said strips, marked j; are fastened at each end by heilig bent over thechime, and nailed through the same, or to the head, as shown at fig. 1.

The heads of said barrel aremade loosely fitting, of one or more pieces,and around the circumference thereof is a wooden hoop, to make aclosely-'fitting head, and fastened to'said head, as shown at iig. 3,theupper edge of which hoop is dnsh and even with the chime of saidbarrel, and, when the head is insei-ted, forms a part of such chime.

On the outside of the barrel, on the ends ofthe middle sections, and onthe chilne ends ofthe end sections, are strong hoops, of wood, o1' ofbander hoopiron, for the purpose of strengthening said sections,v

and holding'the same in shape.l

C latin What IA claim as iny improvement in dry barrels made of threesections of bent timber is,-

Goniining the sections together by means of upright iron bauds orstraps,f, secured as shown, in combination with the head, constructedwith itsinside hoop b and dnge a for its support, all as shown and described,for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE M. HUNTLY.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL D. CLAY, ALBERT H. KIMBALL.

